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Quinn’s not happy about all the fuss her mum and Alex are making about the new baby. She’s sick of their excitement. She likes things the way they are: just the three of them, and Disco, her lop-eared rabbit. She doesn’t want a baby brother. And she definitely doesn’t want to share her bedroom with him.
But when Otto is born three months early things change more than anyone could have expected. Quinn meets her little brother in the hospital neonatal intensive care unit surrounded by tubes and beeping machines. And she becomes the best big sister any baby brother could have.
My Brother Otto is a story about family, love and sadness that delves into an experience of heartbreaking loss with sensitivity, warmth and the comfort that memories can hold.
‘Beautiful and gentle and full of love.’ Fiona Hardy
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Themes:Mental Health, Teen sexuality, LGBTQIA, Suicide, Romance, FriendshipReading age:14+openbookTeaching notesAustralian
Themes:Dystopian, Technology, Paranormal, Thriller, RomanceReading age:14+openbookTeaching notesAustralian
Themes:Australian history, Convicts, True Stories, Tasmania, Sailing, Birds, Pirates, IllustratedReading age:9+openbookTeaching notesAustralian
Themes:music, friendship, overcoming fear, cultural differencesReading age:9+openbookTeaching notesAustralian
Themes:art, domestic violence, family, coming-of-age, mental healthReading age:14+openbookTeaching notes
Themes:Mental Health, Peer Pressure, Coming of Age, Friendship, Family, Ghost storyReading age:14+openbookTeaching notesAustralian
Themes:Coming of Age, Romance, LGBTQIA, Small Town Life, Family,Reading age:14+Australian
Themes:Friendship, rural Australia, sisters, coming of ageReading age:12+Australian
Themes:Friendship, growing up, rural Australia, sisters, coming of ageReading age:12+Australian
Themes:Coming of age, friendship, troubled teensReading age:13+Australian
Themes:Friendship, rural Australia, sisters, coming of ageReading age:12+Australian

Themes:adventure, friendshipReading age:9+Australian
Themes:survival, honour, friendship, love, refugees, dystopiaReading age:14+openbookTeaching notesAustralian
Themes:resilience, grief, family, friendship, identity, animals, cancerReading age:9+openbookTeaching notes
Themes:LGBTQI, friendshipReading age:14+
Themes:time-travel, adventure, fantasy, steampunk, friendship, historyReading age:12+Australian
Themes:time-travel, adventure, fantasy, steampunk, friendship, identityReading age:12+openbookTeaching notesAustralian
Themes:adventure, family, identity, disability, friendship, history, WWIIReading age:10+openbookTeaching notes
Themes:identity, survival, honour, sacrifice, friendship, guilt, courage, grief and lossReading age:14+openbookTeaching notesAustralian
Themes:friendship, family and legacy, art, surrealism and creativity, cross-cultural identity, adolescence, magic and imaginationReading age:9+openbookTeaching notesAustralian
Themes:holocaust, moral choices, good and evil, friendship, IdentityReading age:14+
Themes:LGBTQI, coming-of-age, friendship, moral and ethical conflictReading age:14+Australian

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